Vienna Du Paquier trembleuse cup and saucer

Code: C359

Circa 1725-30

Hard-paste porcelain

Height of cup: 3 in. (7.5 cm)

Diameter of saucer: 5 in. (13 cm)

A very rare Du Paquier trembleuse cup and saucer, the tall beaker-shaped cup with two molded eagle-head handles, the saucer with a central high pierced openwork lip. The saucer decorated with stylized Deutsche blumen flowers and the cup with a continuous chinoiserie scene including a pagoda and figures in a garden, all in the brilliant Du Paquier palette of pink, purple, green, blue, and iron-red, with gilded highlights. The rim of both the cup and saucer decorated with a Baroque scrollwork frieze in iron-red and gold. The pair to this cup is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.